> This is quite simple and history bears it out: you can't rely on a for-profit corporation to operate in any other manner than optimizing shareholder value.

This is like saying that history bears out that you can't rely on governments to do anything but prepare for war and then send you out to die in one.

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delusional 4 days ago | parent [-]

That's ahistoric. Democratic governments are correlated with a _decrease_ in violent conflict.

	▲	pessimizer 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		No they are not. DPT is just about "democratic" government having conflicts with each other. They find it difficult because they are economically intertwined. They have no such problem preying on other countries, often in cooperation.